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Colombo Performance Test Meetup – April

It’s Meetup season again and I was privileged to do a session on Performance Testing in Colombo Performance Test meetup organized by the PerfTest Initiative of 99X Technology. It was collaborative session conducted by me and Nipuna Madusanka, a fellow Xian.

What we talked…

Since we wanted to do something different for the meetup, (Other than the generic topics that we usually see in meetups), We thought of doing something about continuous integration (CI). CI is not a new topic, but CI integration with non-functional testing is kinda of new and cool (At least for us: D)

So after a couple of deep discussions, we decided the structure of the meetup. It was decided to have a theoretical session and a practical session. In theory session, we planned to explain the back end of a implemented solution and importance of having the CI environment.

In the practical session, we decided to use the Jenkins (a) Because everyone knows it (b) Everyone at least heard about it, Also as an additional bonus point, we decided to add Blazemeter integration part. Now, this part was something that I and Nipuna found out after a couple of research and we thought it was a really cool feature.

Challenges

Apart from countless hours of rectifying the errors in the presentation, we ran into a couple of configuration issues related to Jenkins, which was not easy to fix. However, we managed to fix those by the eve of the meetup 😀

Meetup Day

It was thrilling to have a good turnaround for the meetup. There were lots of questions from the crowd, which were really interesting (That may also be an indicator that we didn’t bore the crowd )

Aftermath

It is absolutely thrilling to see the increasing number of performance enthusiasts in the testing arena, We’ve received lots of positive feedback on the meetup.com. Lots of people tried the things we presented at the meetup, which is again really wonderful thing to see. Thank you very much 99XT Performance Test Team for the opportunity to talk in this platform.

In case If you missed the session, Here’s the link to the presentation.